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• Disappearing Acts | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £8.48   |  Saving you £-2.49 (-41.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This is a love story waiting to explode. Brooklyn NYC. Franklin Swift is a construction worker who's rarely more than one step away from the dole queue. Zora Banks is a music teacher who dreams of becoming a singer/songwriter. From different worlds a chance encounter throws the pair together - the attraction is instant and it's not long before the unlikely lovers move in together. At first they're lost in their passion for each other but all too soon real life begins to take its toll. Money is tight Franklin's past catches up with him while Zora reveals a frightening secret of her own...

• The Navigators | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ken Loach does for the railways in The Navigators what he did for the construction industry in Riff-Raff (1990). As ever, his sympathies lie firmly with the ordinary working blokes, not above of bit of banter and skiving, but essentially trying to do a decent job and stay loyal to their mates in the face of managerial double-talk and corporate devotion to the bottom line. It's 1995, and the Tories have just carried out their disastrous, pea-brained scheme to break up the railways. We follow the fortunes of a gang of track workers in South Yorkshire as they find themselves confronted with all the fallout of privatisation--redundancies, cost-cutting, corner-cutting and the wholesale junking of any concern with safety or quality of work. Accidental deaths, one hapless time-server explains, "have got to be kept to an acceptable level". Two scenes encapsulate the tragic-comic tone of the film. At one point the disbelieving workers are ordered by managers to smash up a load of new equipment; it's surplus to requirements, but can't possibly be sold to "the competition", their former British Rail workmates at the depot down the line. Later, called to a derailment, the track workers pass a whole series of hard-hat wearing managers, each paying no attention to what needs doing but muttering fiercely into a mobile phone trying to pass the buck for the accident to another company. Loach cast the film using local actors and comics, and there's a strong sense of authenticity in the flat accents and dry Yorkshire humour. But ultimately this is a lament for the destruction, not only of what was once a great rail network, but of the pride and camaraderie of those who worked on it. The film's ending is fittingly bleak. --Philip Kemp

• The Overlanders | DVD | (04/05/2020) from £9.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ealing Studios' first foray into overseas production proved a resounding hit with this wartime Western shot entirely on location in Australia. Chips Rafferty stars as the tough cattle drover determined to keep his animals alive under threat of imminent invasion in this enormously successful drama from celebrated documentarian Harry Watt. The Overlanders is presented here as a brand-new remaster from original film elements in its original fullscreen aspect ratio. Australia, 1942. Under threat of Japanese invasion the government initiate a scorched earth policy and Dan McAlpine is ordered to shoot his cattle. Refusing point blank, Dan and his helpers are determined to drive the herd 2,000 miles over some of the toughest country in the world. SPECIAL FEATURE: Extensive image gallery

• The Overlanders | Blu Ray | (04/05/2020) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ealing Studios' first foray into overseas production proved a resounding hit with this wartime Western shot entirely on location in Australia. Chips Rafferty stars as the tough cattle drover determined to keep his cattle alive under threat of imminent invasion in this enormously successful drama from celebrated documentarian Harry Watt. The Overlanders is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original fullscreen aspect ratio. Australia, 1942. Under threat of Japanese invasion the government initiate a scorched earth policy and Dan McAlpine is ordered to shoot his cattle. Refusing point blank, Dan and his helpers are determined to drive the cattle 2,000 miles over some of the toughest country in the world. Special Features: Image gallery

• WWE - The Bash 2009 | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Three Stages of Hell one of the most punishing contests in the WWE returns after a seven year absence! Randy Orton defends his WWE Championship against Triple H in the gruelling 2 Out Of 3 Falls Match. Fan favourites clash as CM Punk and Jeff Hardy battle for the World Heavyweight Championship. Rey Mysterio risks losing his iconic mask in pursuit of the Intercontinental Championship from Chris Jericho. The Miz has been mocking John Cena ever since being drafted to Raw but now The Miz must put his money where his mouth is and battle John Cena in the ring. Chaos rules when five men fight for the ECW Titles in a Championship Scramble Match.

• Double Indemnity | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Director Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard) and writer Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck: kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But, of course, in these plots things never quite go as planned, and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out. From the opening scene you know Neff is doomed, as the story is told in flashback; yet, to the film's credit, this doesn't diminish any of the tension of the movie. This early film noir flick is wonderfully campy by today's standards, and the dialogue is snappy ("I thought you were smarter than the rest, Walter. But I was wrong. You're not smarter, just a little taller"), filled with lots of "dame"s and "baby"s. Stanwyck is the ultimate femme fatale, and MacMurray, despite a career largely defined by roles as a softy (notably in the TV series My Three Sons and the movie The Shaggy Dog), is convincingly cast against type as the hapless, love-struck sap. --Jenny Brown

• White Sands | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Red-hot stars ignite the white-hot thriller 'White Sands' a volatile mix of action and suspense directed by Roger Donaldson (Species) and filmed in an around New Mexico's glistening White Sands National Park. Willem Dafoe plays Sheriff Ray Dolezal a small-town lawman in big-time trouble. To untangle a mystery he assumes the identity of a murdered FBI agent and goes undercover inside a global crime ring. This precarious new life steers him toward a sinister weapons runner (Mickey R

• Pandaemonium | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Acclaimed director Julien Temple's latest movie tells of the relationship between two of England's greatest poets - Coleridge and Wordsworth - and the drugs and jealousies that eventually destroyed it.

• The War Wagon | Blu Ray | (06/05/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The obsessive desire of a rancher to bring down the powerful man who robbed him of his name and his land sends him and four confederates along a desperate headlong course from which there is no turning back.

• The Moonstone | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally broadcast in 1971 the intriguing detective drama The Moonstone is a series based on the hugely popular novel by Wilkie Collins. Starring Robin Ellis (The Negotiator) and Colin Baker (Doctor Who) the plot centres around The Moonstone an Indian treasure given to Rachel Verrinder as an 18th birthday present. It has been stolen from a temple in colonial India and a number of misfortunes have followed it into the hands of Rachel. The Moonstone goes missing and the plot

• Jack Goes Boating | DVD | (27/02/2012) from £4.69   |  Saving you £13.30 (73.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace focused around two working-class New York City couples. Hoffman makes his feature directorial debut with Bob Glaudini's screen adaptation of his acclaimed Off Broadway play, Jack Goes Boating.

• Diary Of A Sex Addict / Dead Sexy / Body Double | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Body Double: Director Brian De Palma pits sexuality against physical violence in a roller coaster of a thriller starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith. A beautiful young woman performs a seductive striptease at the window of her fabulous Hollywood home. A struggling young actor watches entranced from a house nearby drawn into her obsession. Suddenly he becomes a helpless witness to her savage murder. Compelled to track down the psychopath responsible his investigations lead him into the stark and perverted world of the body double. Dead Sexy: Shannon Tweed former Playboy Playmate of the Year star as the beautiful and fast-talking detective Kate McBain hot on the trail of a serial killer who has brutally murdered four of Los Angeles' sexiest high-class hookers. From strip joints to Beverly Hills mansions McBain gets caught up in a dangerous web of intrigue seduction and murder as she finds herself falling for the charming and mysterious Blue (John Enos) who has a thing for sexy blondes like her and who just might be the killer. Will Detective McBain (or her naked ambition) triumph or will she end up dead sexy? A taut and erotic thriller in the tradition of 'Basic Instinct' 'Dead Sexy' will keep your pulse racing right through to the shocking climax. Diary of a Sex Addict: An erotic and disturbingly arousing glimpse into the obsessive life of a sexual compulsive. By all outward appearances Sammy Horn's (Des Barres) life appears to be the picture of domestic bliss - devoted husband loving father and successful businessman. But Sammy is leading a double life. He is a sex addict driven by impulses he is powerless to control. And while he is busy feeding his addiction and indulging his obsession he will lie to the people he cares about and hurt the people that care about him in his never-ending quest for a fix. A raw and enticing thriller co-starring Rosanna Arquette Nastassja Kinski and with breakout performances from Alexandra Paul and Ed Begley Jr Diary of a Sex Addict is your ticket to a world beyond your wildest imagination.

• South Park: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (28/05/2001) from £9.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (300.30%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Set in a Colorado mountain town that gets destroyed on a regular basis and is populated by the dumbest, most vulgar characters imaginable, South Park is an anarchic animated sitcom that owes more to the spirit of Monty Python than to its comparatively tame predecessor The Simpsons. The show's origins go back to a 1995 Christmas video "postcard" called The Spirit of Christmas that a Fox Studios executive had commissioned at the previous Sundance Film Festival for $2000 having seen the work of film-makers Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Cannibal: The Musical). The adventures of Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny became an instant ratings and merchandising smash and the foul-mouthed eight-year-olds have expanded to the cinema screen (Bigger, Longer and Uncut), found their way to the MTV Movie Awards and allowed the show creators/(song) writers/voice-artists to pursue equally anarchic comedy at the box office with Baseketball and Orgazmo. Constantly pursued by a censorship outcry, the series has survived several copycat cartoon threats and even the death of its lead female vocal-artist during its third season. Perhaps the show's biggest controversy has always been that--despite a disclaimer before every episode--under-aged children still see it. But lured by a universe full of Cheesy Poofs and Cookie Dings, where no-one's afraid to badmouth school bus driver Miss Crabtree and where it's OK to vomit from being in love, it's no wonder that children of all ages can't help but love it. Seriously. --Paul Tonks Season Two: Parker and Stone intentionally annoyed audiences by holding back season one's cliff-hanger resolution ("Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut") where we learn the surprise truth of who Cartman's dad really is. Season two instead opens with a TV Movie-of-the-Week Special for cartoon-within-a-cartoon characters Terrance and Phillip in "Not Without My Anus". A clever sub-plot runs through the middle of the year with closet homosexual schoolteacher Mr Garrison losing his hand puppet Mr Hat and replacing him with Mr Twig. It comes to an end in the amazing "Chef Aid" with Mr Hat busting Garrison and Chef from jail to attend a concert where Elton John, Meat Loaf and Ozzy Osborne are playing (all voiced for real). We get to explore the dubious leisure activities of Jimbo and Ned on their cable access show "Huntin' and Killin'" during a ratings war with "Jesus and Pals" (Christ having chosen the town to live in--naturally) in the Jerry Springer spoof "The Mexican Staring Frog of southern Sri Lanka". The season is rounded off by visits from the Evil Eric Cartman (who's nice!) from a parallel universe in "Spooky Fish", the Booktastic Bus in "Chickenlover", the Underpants Gnomes and even Charles Manson. --Paul Tonks

• Hot Tub Time Machine | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £7.08   |  Saving you £17.91 (252.97%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.

• Rubbadubbers - Bathtime Scramble! | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Rubbadubbers is a high spirited new pre-school animated series which turns an everyday bathroom into a world of imagination and fantastic adventure. It follows the exploits of a group of bath toys whose lively minds take them an incredible journeys where a toothbrush can become a tree a soap dish a sailing ship and a sponge a desert island. The emphasis of course being on the power of pretend play and shared imagination because the best way to learn about life is to play. Bath

• The Limits of Control | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (-25.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beautifully shot and timeless, "The Limits of Control" delivers a surreal neo-noir, detective story unlike anything you have ever seen!

• When You're Strange | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £9.51 (41.40%)   |  RRP £22.99

  A look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors including rare exclusive footage.

• Memorial Day | Blu Ray | (18/03/2013) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Although Bud has never talked about his time in World War II he finds himself striking a deal with his grandson: Kyle can pick any three souvenirs, and Bud will tell him the stories behind each one. Memorial Day not only takes us on a journey into Bud's complicated wartime past, but also into Kyle's wartime future. The film shows the similarities between two generations of one family as the two men share parallel experiences in combat, Bud in war torn Europe and Kyle in modern day Iraq.

• The Ice Cream Truck | DVD | (01/03/2021) from £5.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A young mother moves back to her hometown where she becomes the focus of her neighbor's teenage son. The temptation to re-discover her youth and have an affair with the boy is soon put dramatically into perspective as several deaths in the neighborhood are linked to an evil slasher that stalks the suburbs in an ice cream truck.

• John Bishop's Australia | DVD | (27/11/2017) from £12.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This entertaining travelogue sees comedian John Bishop return to Australia for a new adventure, 22 years after he first cycled along the country's Gold Coast as part of a year long trip. John always felt that by spending all day on the road during his original visit he'd missed out on much of the country he rode through. Now, using his 1992 diary as a guidebook, John is back on his bike, reflecting on his own personal journey as he reconnects with his 25 year old self. This time he's taking plenty of breaks along the route to sample the delights of Australia, meeting extraordinary people and experiencing some true natural wonders as he discovers how this stunning country has changed.